Percy Short & Cuthbert Solicitors

Mar 16th, 2023

Very frustrating experience with P, S & C, with a private flat sale and leasehold extension, which subsequently fell through. Initial solicitor left, we weren't informed until we contacted them. Next solicitor slow, denied start date, & added on charges. Nightmare!
Sep 16th, 2022

A professional group of people. Always provide a good service.
Jan 12th, 2022

I do NOT recommend this firm, since I have been treated shoddily by TWO different solicitors/paralegals. Oh and by the way, when any of these firms or solicitors say on their website or literature that they are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, dont take any notice of that since that is thinly veiled self-regulation, since the SRA is a part of the Law Society, which is the lawyers own representative body and is absolutely notorious for doing next to nothing to help so many victims of solicitors. In 2012 they rejected a staggering 94% of complaints about solicitors, gave 5.4% only a friendly letter of advice and only disciplined 0.6%. In 2017 they received 20,000 complaints and yet only disciplined 27 solicitors. My first bad experience was with paralegal Nicolette Nixon, who met with me for about 45 minutes charged to Legal Aid, for which she had me fill out forms. She told me the things she would do for me in my case and when I asked her how I would know when she had done them, she said she would contact me. But guess what? After taking that Legal Aid consultation fee, she never, ever contacted me. I revisited the firm after a month and left a message for her, since she was not there, but she never got back to me. I even asked for her again some time afterward. She met me at the door and told me when she didnt hear from me, she put my files away in storage, but she was supposed to do what she promised and get back to me with the results, and she did hear from me but never got back to me! Why didnt she contact me before storing away my files? She then claimed that she hadnt done anything she said she would do because she hadnt heard from me. What nonsense! Even after that meeting, I yet again never heard from her. She derailed my momentum. My second bad experience was with solicitor Michael Kilbane. I told him I wanted help to get a court order to force an evil, abusive, crooked, fraudulent English solicitor to hand over information from my mothers estate, of which she made me an executor. He told me I dont know why you want information from your mothers estate. It looks to me as if you just want to go on a fishing expedition. What? Who the hell does he think he is questioning my legal right to this information, which I had because I was an executor with a Grant of Probate? This is how these solicitors behave. Incredibly arrogant, often when you go to them for help, they behave like they are your enemy, like they are acting for the other side against you. It is an extremely corrupt profession, sanctioned by the British government and parliament, who allow them to "regulate" themselves. He barely took the time to listen to me. Although I came to him, I struggled to get a word in edgeways. As if his behaviour up to that point wasnt bad enough, when I told him the solicitor had lied to me he suddenly said, I dont think I want to take this case. I am busy with other work. This is a standard excuse by this hideous, abusive profession when they dont want to take a case. I think he said that because he is a coward and unwilling to help someone who has suffered appalling abuse and misconduct from another solicitor, of which there are many people. By refusing to help victims of solicitors, they are actively helping to cover up such abuses. He was not willing to help me or even hear my story, from the beginning. Although this firm is based in the local Holloway area and has benefited from the custom and patronage of the local community, I dont think they give a damn about helping people in the local community they earn a living from. More people should spread more word of mouth about this profession!
Sep 27th, 2019

just dreadful, went to get advice about evicting tenant, clueless bad advice, no idea, who are these people named as percy and cuthbert. I went elsewhere, found a company run by ex county court staff, who I found to be as sharp as a surgeons knife. Forget this lot. You have been WARNED.
Aug 21st, 2019